Monday, March 27, 2006

As we mentioned over the weekend, according to Carl Bialik at Gelf Magazine, ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd will give the M Zone credit for our Wonderlic bit which was read on the air last week. As we also mentioned then, if that happens, we're cool and it's time to move on (until 3 years from now when we might try to raise $12,000 in order to put up a Wonderlicpeat.com billboard outside ESPN HQ).

While we're going to tune in, unfortunately, the two of us who live in markets that get Cowherd's show could potentially be in meetings for at least a portion of his 10am-1pm broadcast (ok, thruth is that's really the time each week our moms make us clean up so we can continue living in our parents' basements for free). Therefore, if you catch the show today, please email us about what was said and tell us your thoughts. We'd appreciate it.

We'll post an update tomorrow when our moms say the place looks clean enough and Wangs brings 'Nana back from the home.

53 comments:

Yost - My mom can listen to Cowherd's show, today. It's only a 4-hour drive to reach a station with a signal strong enough to hear him. The closest station broadcasts via carrier current, I think. But remember, she's easily side tracked by yard sales and road side bars so I'm not sure we can count on her actually hearing him - or reporting back accurately.

I think she's going to be picking up Nana while she's out so we can still play Doom this afternoon.

Wow, Cowherd is really doing a de minimus effort here. He knows that a huge number of affiliates cut off his last hour. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he goes Giambi on you and just apologizes without saying what it was for.

eevwell after 10+ minutes of commercials and sportscenter every 20 minutes this is what cc had to say:2 things we take a lot pride in the show:1. try to be different (dig a little deeper)2. work ethic (we owe you a really good day's work)

That said last Wednesday at this time we presented a very funny wonderlic test. A listener sent a very funny wonderlic test. The people who run the Michigan Zone blog zone dot blog spot created the test.

They deserve the credit and it was very funny.

He mentioned the numerous blazing emails they got.

They mentioned that you guys are still killing him on your web site and his boss made him check it out.

He also mentioned the site is very creative and people should check out the site.

He tried to pass the buck off on the person who sent him the wonderlic test via email. And ask people sending emails to give credit where credit is due so that it may be passed on.

He did say that the buck stops with him and he didn't do a very thorough look into where credit was due.

Herd fessed up @ 12:47PM However, it was weak... not once did he just simply apologize... he offered plenty of excuses: the staff didn't do research, the e-mail slipped through the cracks, yada yada yada. For someone who talks about character a lot, it seems to this listener that Colin isn't practicing what he is preaching. Too bad he's too arrogant to simply say that he messed up.

I just really think that you guys are making a bigger deal out of this then it actually is. Its a fake Wonderlic test, anyone can do it. I mean he didn't go on air saying that he made this up and it was all his ideas, he said that it was sent from a listener and it was funny. So the real problem is the person that is sending your things out as if it they made it, your problem isn't colin

I am surprised to say this, but I thought he sounded sincere and genuinely apologetic to MZone. Several times, he mentioned the web address and how funny your writing is. He even double checked with his producer to make sure it was blogSPOT and not blogSPORT. He also said that no matter if they get a source or not, it falls on him to make sure credit goes where its due.

Cowherd went way out of his way in today's show (Monday) to give you guys full credit for a great piece and admitted he had overreacted. He stated that he put his apology on the air at the the same time in his program that he used your piece last week, so the same listeners would be more likely to hear it.I have XL Satellite radio and hear him on ESPN, although he's on local radio in Atlanta as well. Colin is a college football fanatic and makes no bones about his love of the Pac 10. He like ND but puts down the Big 10. Cowherd knocks Michigan football for losing to our rivals and in bowl games. He says we're resting on our laurels from a national champoinship won almost 10 years ago. As a regular listener (and UM fanatic), his apology, and complimentary references to your website, are as good as it gets from him.

dang. what a bunch of whiners. you guys write on a page that ends in "blogspot.com" for crying out loud. everyone knows that means you aren't good enough to get a real writing gig. if anything, you should be thanking colin. your site will probably get a 1000% increase in traffic just because he mentioned your name on air. [insert nasal whine here] "dang you, colin! i am on blogspot.com! you owe me an apology! i sit alone in my bed with my laptop all day coming up with material for my blog!"

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